[Patches] [ python-Patches-580670 ] less restrictive HTML comments

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Patches item #580670, was opened at 2002-07-12 19:21
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Category: Library (Lib)
Group: Python 2.2.x
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Rejected
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Bill Bell (wbell539)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: less restrictive HTML comments

Initial Comment:

Current code enforces requirement that HTML comments open 
with '<!--'. Suggest patch which provides for less restrictive syntax, 
since current syntax requirements rejects significant fraction of 
pages.

Affects sgmllib.py and markupbase.py.

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Comment By: Bill Bell (wbell539)
Date: 2002-07-28 19:29

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OK, Martin, I withdraw the suggestion.

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2002-07-28 18:47

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Can you give examples of a few pages that contain such
comments? I doubt that this is all that common, and if you
still need to parse them, it might be better to make your
own adjustments to htmllib.

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